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To: TimF who wrote (158627)	1/21/2003 9:40:40 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1575775

To keep up with those productivity increases, we have had to run faster on the treadmill... Maybe but I think you might be ignoring how fast people have "run" for a long time. Even if we are going faster we are not running longer. Hours worked per year by the average full time employee has gone down (there is information on that in at least one of the links from my earlier post). But its possible that we are working harder when at work or doing more work at home that is not being counted against the official hours worked. cnn.com "In hard numbers, what Johnson is saying is that his ILO statistics show that last year the average American worked 1978 hours.....up from 1942 hours in 1990.That represents an increase of almost a week of work. And it registers Amercans as working longer hours than Canadians, Germans, Japanese and other workers." He goes on to point out that this trend is counter to what's going on in the other industrial nations. He also notes that of all the developed and developing nations in the world, only two work more hours than Americans........S. Koreans and the Czech Republic. And so we have productivity gains, but they literally are killing us. ted

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